Motivational Quotes

Belief

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

- Winfrey, Oprah

Best Quotes about Belief

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Amos, Wally

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Seligan, Martin

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

Schwartz, David J.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Baldwin, James

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Wilson, Robert

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Madson, Andrew V.

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Wieder, Marcia

People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Ovid

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Mencken, H. L.

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Buckle, George Earle

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Dickinson, Emily

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Caesar, Julius

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

Buddha

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Certeau, Michel De

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Russell, Bertrand

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning

Trollope, Anthony

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

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You'll see it when you believe it.

Dyer, Wayne

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Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Cousins, Norman

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Jenkins, David

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Robinson, Sugar Ray

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

Caesar, Julius

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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Chesterfield, Lord

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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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Man makes holy what he believes.

Renan, Ernest

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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Ching Ning Chu

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

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Everything is possible for him who believes.

Bible

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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Rudolph, Wilma

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To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.

Proverb, French

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One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil

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Belief creates the actual fact.

James, William

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.